All men are born truthful and die liars.
~ Vauvenargues
The lie is a condition of life.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
It takes a wise man to handle a lie. A fool had better remain honest.
~ Norman Douglas
We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
~ Samuel Butler
Who lies for you will lie against you.
~ Bosnian Proverb
The cruellest lies are often told in silence.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him you have no business with consequences you are to tell the truth.
~ Samuel Johnson
I do not mind lying but I hate inaccuracy.
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanations.
~ Saki
A half-truth is a whole lie.
~ Jewish Proverb
A liar should have a good memory.
~ Quintilian
Oh don't tell me of facts - I never believe in facts you know Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts except figures.
~ Sydney Smith
Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.
~ François De La Rochefoucauld
In the lead up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence and irresponsibility, at worse, lying, incompetence and corruption.
~ Anthony Zinni
The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon's lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known.
~ Bob Woodward
A degree of lying - you know, white lies - seems to be inherent in all languages and all forms of communication.
~ Matthew Lesko
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down .
~ Woody Allen
The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
I will say that the idea of a woman being deceptive came from that original discussion with critics and reporters about if woman could do that kind of thing. Evelyn, herself, grew out of the discussions about how capable women are of deceit and lying and manipulation.
~ Neil Labute
The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
~ Hannah Arendt
To be fair, lying is part and parcel of public life. Every politician has lied about something because they are owned by the special interest groups that finance their elections.
~ Peter Schuyler
After he was assassinated, his family and the men who had served him continued the lying and began the destruction, censoring and hiding of JFK's medical records.
~ Richard Reeves
The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.
There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics.
~ Josefina Vazquez Mota
There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.
~ Josh Billings
No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.
~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
If we were to abandon concern for what is true, what is false, and what remains indeterminate, the world would be totally chaotic. Even those who deny the importance of truth, on the one hand, are quick to jump on anyone who is caught lying.
~ Howard Gardner
Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.
~ Redd Foxx
When people say they take hits and flops in their stride, I personally feel that they are just lying. Of course, I'm upset when my movies flop. I take it very personally.
~ Mahesh Babu
We were racing at circuits where there were no crash barriers in front of the pits, and fuel was lying about in churns in the pit lane. A car could easily crash into the pits at any time. It was ridiculous.
~ Jackie Stewart
